Sunday, January 20, 2019

I don't know about the rest of you, but when I was a kid in high school I spent most my time chasing girls, playing sports, and trying to stay on top of my classes by hitting my books when necessary. What I wasn't doing, or wouldn't be doing if I was a kid growing up in America, would be going to my nation's capital with a bunch of religious extremist and anti-choice wackos, to bully and make fun of a Native American war hero, who was simply exercising his First Amendment right, and trying to defuse what might have been a very ugly situation between two groups of protesters.

Most people of conscience were disgusted to see those high school boys put their bigotry and ignorance on display by surrounding and mocking that Native American musician (a Vietnam veteran), while wearing their MAGA hats. (The new symbol of hate in America) The incident and the imagery that went along with it, is indicative of where we are as a country when it comes to racism. Most people thought that racism and bigotry would die with the old racists and bigots who inhabit parts of our country. Of course this would be wishful thinking on their part. (Some things have not changed.)Thanks to a president who embraces said bigotry and hatred, and their parents who support him, a lot of young people in this country are no different than the old heads who wore sheets and hung black men from trees back in the day. They are keeping alive a long legacy of bigotry and intolerance that unfortunately will not die until they do.

Finally, tomorrow is the day we celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. in this country. Ironically another man named King has exposed the republican party for the hypocrites that they are when it comes to matters of race. Some of them have finally denounced Steve King, but you have to wonder why they denounced King and not the leader of their party ,who has not denounced the aforementioned Mr. King, and who has embraced the very same racist principles that he stands for.

Steve King has been a racist for a very long time. He has been a racist in plain sight, and no one in the republican party ever called him out on his racism until now.

I am glad they are finally speaking up (better late than never), but what took them so long? And it would go a long way if the leader of the "party of Lincoln" would openly denounce him as well.

Of course we are not holding our breath. Because as we can see from the way those young men acted in Washington, that the president still has a large following who wants him to remain just the way he is.

Steve King’s mistake is that he messed up and used the verboten “magic words.”

History has proven that Republicans are capable of turning a blind eye to racist rhetoric of even the most horrendously blatant sort, as long as it is not accompanied with official no-no words. One can make awful, unfair, degrading generalizations about non-white people — impugning their intelligence, work ethic, and morality — all the live-long day and RepublIvan’s will find a way to rationalize it — as long as one refrains from spewing actual racial slurs.

Or, obviously, refrains from saying “Derp, when did white supremacy become a bad thing?” LOL

Steve King going full Nazi reminds me of the ridiculous scene three months ago in Australia, when the Liberal-National coalition (their version of Republicans) were tricked into passing a legislative motion asserting that “It’s okay to be white” ... before realizing that this was a white supremacist meme. At which point, they were all very embarrassed and pointed fingers at each other over who was to be blamed for starting this.

Be real Buck. These are not the behaviors of kids coming to the nation ‘s capital to see how the nation works or don’t work. This image reminds me of the day when the mobs were white men and women. I have firsthand knowledge of mobs due to the experience of intergration during the sixties. Being a Vietnam vet, I wish I was there to offer support. That one kid will be on somebodies list. Please don’t compare these young white chicken-ass boys to the victims of Parkland. Just like Donald was chicken-hearted in his draft dodging years, they are only emulating their role model. MAWA.

Off topic, Kamala Harris announces run for presidency. Mother was Tamil Indian (persecuted group!), father was...wait for it... Jamaican! He's an economics professor at Stanford University acc. Wikipedia.

Field, you must start explaining why this little island has produced so many high-achievers. Way out of proportion to its actual population.

(I don't think Harris should be the nominee, too risky given the current poltical calculus, but she DOES have a great backstory, even if parents divorced early.)

anotherbozo said...Off topic, Kamala Harris announces run for presidency. Mother was Tamil Indian (persecuted group!), father was...wait for it... Jamaican! He's an economics professor at Stanford University acc. Wikipedia.

Field, you must start explaining why this little island has produced so many high-achievers. Way out of proportion to its actual population.

(I don't think Harris should be the nominee, too risky given the current poltical calculus, but she DOES have a great backstory, even if parents divorced early.)------

Another half black candidate for the Dems, and a woman. She's a lock to win the nomination.

Her backstory makes her perfect for 2020, right down to the black father abandoning the family.

The current political calculus doesn't care that she has achieved so little in her time in government, or that she made a fool of herself during the Kavanaugh hearings, or even that she jump started her career by sleeping with a married politician (Willie Brown). The only things that matter are her race and gender, along with her willingness to abandon all scruples to further the progressive agenda. The Willie Brown mess can be spun to make her a victim (MeToo!). Her husband is Jewish and she has some step children she trot out as family. She even has twice as many third world immigrant parents as Obama. I'd bet a grand on her winning the nomination, and then putting a white male down ticket (my money is on Beto). It's a proven winning formula.

And regarding your excitement over the fact Tamils are a "persecuted group!" in India, I guess you believe America now needs to start atoning for the racial and ethnic inequities of other cultures too. Progressivism never sleeps.

Anonymous Brownstein said...I love my alternate reality where the truth matters not because we make our own truth.

Yer fuzzy recollection of who made fools of themselves at Kavernomouth's wingnut love/lie fest is standard wingnut alternate reality. You and others like you should be rounded up and deported to Namibia and listen to Toto's Africa endless loop and receive some culture.

"And btw, Nathan Phillips was born in 1955, and while he may have served, it is highly unlikey he ever made it over to Vietnam where you were and pretty certain he wasn't a "war hero" as Field states."

>Blatant fucking lies, liar. Prove it!<

I don't have copy of his birth certificate, but his age is public record, and he would have likely been too young to make it over to Nam. No one is disputing he served, but he claimed he was a Vietnam veteran until people began inquiring about his military service. Then he started referring to himself as a "Vietnam-times veteran."

"The current political calculus doesn't care that she has achieved so little in her time in government, or that she made a fool of herself during the Kavanaugh hearings, or even that she jump started her career by sleeping with a married politician (Willie Brown). The only things that matter are her race and gender, along with her willingness to abandon all scruples to further the progressive agenda"

Kamala Harris doesn’t matter. Nor does any Democrat politician. They are empty vessels, interchangeable and easily forgotten. They have no real opinions.

Nixon started drawing down US forces in 1968. This accelerated in 1971, and the last combat troops were pulled in 1973, the year Nathan Phillips turned 18. It is unlikely he made it to Vietnam to be part of the small contingent of forces that remained until 1975. You should wait a little while for the facts before you go to the mat defending his "war hero" status.

Doug, it was cloudy and spitting flurries yesterday and last night. No eclipse here and Thursday it is supposed to be 17 below zero for low temp. Be sun dogs all over if you want to risk bitter cold looking around the sun for them.

One year from now, Democratic voters will believe they made up their own minds to choose Harris as their nominee. Nothing like that is happening. The media giants have chosen Harris (obviously), and now they are assigning that opinion to their persuadable audience.

Y'all are pathetic. All in all it's a typical day of protests. I had a friend who used to go down to Balboa Park to film the protestors and counter protestors. Usually it's just shouting and posturing. It's always loud.

It looked to me like one of the big white kids wanted to fight for a minute with his shirt off. The other kids were cheering, yelling, "Fight! Fight! Fight..." Right? Isn't that what they were saying? Of course nobody was stupid enough to take the bait.

Nathan Phillips was trying to bring his peace.

I kinda liked that one Hebrew zealot. That's fairly typical for religious fanatics to shout out their message.

And no, you may think it's perfectly alright to wear your goddam MAGA hats. But it's always going to be a huge, "Fuck you!" Those kids should not have been there. What the hell kind of Catholic high school is going to bus their kids to Washington to protest abortion?

I was dead tired. Not sure what to do. I knew we woujldn't catch the moon rise at the beach. So we headed dead East on a Freeway that drives towards to mountains. I got off in Santee on Mast Boulevard. mast is a long drive that starts at a nature preserve and equestrian area and goes up a long gradual rise to the Santee Summit. As I drove down the lonely road, the Super Moon popped up just like the Great Pumpkin. It wasn't red yet. But it looked as big as Charlie Brown's head. Very mystical with wisps of clouds.

Driving on it looked like we were going to lose altitude again, so I turned up a side street and found the top of a hill with a nice meadow. We had our old Golden Retriever. The Moon was still pretty fucking big as it started to turn red. An hour later, it was only the size of a quarter. When we got back home to watch the Eclipse, it had shrunk to the size of a nickel. But it still was bright and clear like the Roosevelt dime it usually looks like. By 9:00 the night had closed in with her curtain of clouds.

Well, now that more video disproves the media hyped narrative of "Whitey Attacks Indian Elder", will the rest of you White-hating racists and Black Jews please hush up.I'm trying enjoy my White Southerner Privilege on this Glorious day celebrating the birth of General Robert E. Lee.

Residual Marine forces in Vietnam consisted of approximately 500 Marines, most of whom were performing essentially liaison, advisory, staff, and guard functions . Approximately 60 officers and men were advisors with the Vietnamese Marine Division which played a large role in the defensive actions incidental to the North Vietnamese 1972 Easter offensive and in the later South Vietnamese counteroffensive."

There's a whole host of wild coincidences that would have to be true for this guy to be a Marine combat vet. He claims to have served 1972 to 1976 and to have been in Vietnam. Since the Marine combat units were out of the area completely in those time periods, I don't see this claim being true.

The main thing that makes me distrustful is that Nathan Phillips, at best, completely misconstrued what happened. At worst, he deliberately and willfully lied. Such a person's claims should be scrutinized very carefully.

Isn't it wonderful stoopid fucking wingnuts gang up on a lone Native American peacenik and demand he be held to a far higher standard of truth than the fucking mangled apricot, pathological liar in the kremlin annex?

In the face of all those magat hatted wasicu racists with a couple token black catholics tossed in for good measure, Phillips continued his drumming and singing about peace for all.

In all honesty I did not see either black kid wearing magat hats or shirts. And I find it passing strange a school whose athletic teams are called Colonels would claim to have tomahawk chops and spirit chants. That stinks worse than yer run of the mill wasicu racist bastard.

Brownstein said... "The current political calculus doesn't care that she has achieved so little in her time in government, or that she made a fool of herself during the Kavanaugh hearings, or even that she jump started her career by sleeping with a married politician (Willie Brown). The only things that matter are her race and gender, along with her willingness to abandon all scruples to further the progressive agenda.

11:35 AM

I suggest that if you want to be believed, you must include reliable sources when you post dirt on someone. Otherwise, you just look foolish.

So Smirky McRacistfuckface claims he didn't know what Nathan Phillips singing was all about. Truer words never spoken and proves Smirky has not assimilated himself to Indian Country and must therefore be immediately jailed and deported to any racist shithole with a racist wasicu population.

On the other hand, Smirky was wearing his Magat hat which has been determined to be symbol of racism and division like the Cuntfederate battle flag and he knew what it was saying to Nathan Phillips as he smirked in a kindly Native American's face. The white0privileged little shit is pure evil and already unredeemable.

As President Lyndon B. Johnson saidin the 1960s to a young Bill Moyers: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

Trump’s supporters are saying to us, screaming to us, that although he may be the “lowest white man,” he is still better than Barack Obama, the “best colored man.”

There is, of course, a copious history that prompted Johnson’s observation. Poor whites in the post Civil War South were kept compliant by reassurances that–no matter how wretched they were–they were better than those black people, and entitled to their superior status.

There are too many white guys, north and south, who still cling to the comforting belief that their skin color and male genitals make them better than those “others”–women, Jews, gays, immigrants, and even (as we have recently seen) Native Americans. But consistently and especially, black people.

They found Obama’s Presidency intolerable, and they are Trump’s committed base.

MLK was a homophobe said...Biden boasted about his role in passing the 1994 crime bill in his memoir, which was published 14 months ago.

Today at a MLK event, he apologized for it.

It's hard to keep up with progressive dogma, isn't it?=========

AP: Former VP Joe Biden at MLK breakfast: "We have a lot to root out, but most of all the systematic racism that most of us whites don't like to acknowledge even exists."

"There's something we have to admit—not you, we, white America—has to admit there's still a systematic racism."

Joe Biden is so old and uncool he doesn't know he's supposed to be denouncing "systemic racism," so he keeps denouncing "systematic racism," which is the opposite. Jim Crow was "systematic racism," while blacks doing worse on the SAT is supposed to be due to "systemic racism."

As President Lyndon B. Johnson saidin the 1960s to a young Bill Moyers: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

Trump’s supporters are saying to us, screaming to us, that although he may be the “lowest white man,” he is still better than Barack Obama, the “best colored man.”

There is, of course, a copious history that prompted Johnson’s observation. Poor whites in the post Civil War South were kept compliant by reassurances that–no matter how wretched they were–they were better than those black people, and entitled to their superior status.

There are too many white guys, north and south, who still cling to the comforting belief that their skin color and male genitals make them better than those “others”–women, Jews, gays, immigrants, and even (as we have recently seen) Native Americans. But consistently and especially, black people.

They found Obama’s Presidency intolerable, and they are Trump’s committed base."*******************

Yes, Mike, you have said it all. And the fact that the white population is declining while the population of POC is growing terrifies some white people. They respond with oppression and overt violence that is promoted by the current president whose only motive is to gain money and power.

Joe Biden is so old and uncool he doesn't know he's supposed to be denouncing "systemic racism," so he keeps denouncing "systematic racism," which is the opposite. Jim Crow was "systematic racism," while blacks doing worse on the SAT is supposed to be due to "systemic racism."

Since another Steve neuither reads nor comprehends English Biden said we whites have tom admit we were/are the systemic racists before we can resolve our racist tendencies. This is something Drumpf, Steve and the magat hatted racists refuse to acknowledge and refuse to change.

Newly announced Presidential candidate Senator Kamasutra Harris (D-CA), got her start back in the 1990s, where she performed well in quite a variety of positions under San Francisco mayor Willie Brown.

Does it seem weird to anyone else that the Martin Luther King icon's memorial statue was carved by a Chinese man? Shouldn't a proud African American been granted this achievement? What even is going on here? Almost seems kinda racist.

There is a logical explanation for everything except stoopid fucking wingnut racists.

Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin is the sculptor of the 30-foot likeness of King. He was selected for the work after monument organizers saw him working in St. Paul five years ago and decided he was the guy for the job.

America is diverse. It is our greatest strength until homogeneous wasicu fucking racists decide America is for whitey wingnuts only.

He’s offering to travel as a delegate representing the international coalition behind the Indigenous Peoples March to Covington Catholic High School in and have a dialogue about cultural appropriation, racism and the importance of listening to and respecting diverse cultures, he said in a news release.

“Race relations in this country and around the world have reached a boiling point,” said Phillips. “It is sad that on the weekend of a holiday when we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., racial hostility occurred on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where King gave his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.”

FN: What I wasn't doing, or wouldn't be doing if I was a kid growing up in America, would be going to my nation's capital with a bunch of religious extremist and anti-choice wackos, to bully and make fun of a Native American war hero, who was simply exercising his First Amendment right, and trying to defuse what might have been a very ugly situation between two groups of protesters.

what might have been a very ugly situation between two groups of protesters.

The ugliness consisted entirely of the black Israelite protesters insulting and threatening the white Catholic boys.

If you put a group of white Catholic boys, a handful of black Israelites, and a smattering of drum-banging natives together on the same street corner it would descend into an unseemly scene 100/100 times. Does anyone doubt this?

White catlickers have no0 business being there, they are being used to violate church and state rules and you forgot to put them on the corner with their new Klan hoods. Klan hoods guaranteed to bring out protesters.

"Does it seem weird to anyone else that the Martin Luther King icon's memorial statue was carved by a Chinese man? Shouldn't a proud African American been granted this achievement? What even is going on here? Almost seems kinda racist."************************If a black man had been given the job, you all would be screaming, "He only got the job because of affirmative action." There is no pleasing bigots 'cause they don't ever want to be pleased.

Turns out he was a refrigerator mechanic who never went to Nam."***************************Do you have a reliable source for you opinions or are you just blowing smoke? If do have a source, please post it. Thank you.

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